Subject: No Rest For The Wicked
No Rest For The Wicked
April 10th, 2016 at 11:19 am EDTHey Friend, My wife is a slave driver! Good thing I'm a willing servant... We're back to work today, doing a complete cleaning of the pool area and continuing to dig out a retaining wall that was falling down. I wanted to make you aware of another re ...
Cool Contest (I Think)
April 9th, 2016 at 11:14 am EDTHey Friend, Today I'm on work detail, so this'll be short. I've got a honey-do list that will keep me busy most of the day, ergo there is little fun planned for ol' Davey (Ooo, listen to him with his fancy words!). There's a contest going on over at ...
A Question About The Relatives
April 8th, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDTHey Friend, I hope this week's detour into lead guitar basics has been cool with you. In response to yesterday's message about relative keys, I got a question from Sol. It was a very appropriate question, and one I've never considered. His question w ...
A Visit With the Relatives
April 7th, 2016 at 11:20 am EDTHey Friend, Did I give you heartburn with that thought, LOL? Onward... People who go through a traditional music program in college can have a leg up on the rest of us. There are many realities about music that most guitar players end up stumbling u ...
Traps on The Path to Lead Guitar
April 6th, 2016 at 11:07 am EDTHey Friend, There's a trap that's easy to fall into for newer lead guitar players. The feel like they need to be filling up each measure of their lead with lightening fast runs and flashy licks. It's impressive when you see fingers flying up and down ...
Pentatonic Crawl
April 5th, 2016 at 11:24 am EDTHey Friend, I said yesterday that a scale pattern repeats itself up and down the guitar neck. That doesn't mean we're confined to a scale's pattern, though. Turns out learning your scales is just a starting point. There's a couple problems most of us ...
Stuck In A Box
April 4th, 2016 at 11:16 am EDTHey Friend, Guitar soloing is more that just knowing flashy riffs and a few scale patterns. Sure, you can get by with a handful of basic licks and the Pentatonic scale, but to truly become a good lead guitarist, you'll want to push past the comfort o ...
Coming This Week...
April 3rd, 2016 at 11:08 am EDTHey Friend, Most of the questions and challenges I get asked about are centered around chords - learning them, changing between them, getting your hands to form them. The second most common topic I get questions about revolves around guitar soloing. ...
How Embarrassing
April 2nd, 2016 at 11:10 am EDTHeyFriend, Doh! How about that bonehead move? Did you catch my glaring mistake in word usage yesterday? In the headline, I used the word "eminent" versus the word "imminent," which is the proper word to use in this instance. Eminent means to be "repu ...
Breaking News
April 1st, 2016 at 11:21 am EDTHey Friend, Beatles Reunion Eminent! John Lennon and George Harrison to Take a Break From Heavenly Duties to Join Up With Paul and Ringo for a One-off Concert Tour Later This Year In what will undoubtedly be touted as the greatest "Magical Mystery T ...